Amazon cuts price of One Medical membership to $99 a year as the e-commerce giant targets health care expansion.

Amazon is lowering the cost of a One Medical membership for Amazon Prime subscribers, shaving $100 off the annual fee to $99 a year. The step is the latest effort by the e-commerce company to mesh its chain of doctor’s offices with its retail services.

Amazon already runs a web pharmacy and a telehealth service called Amazon Clinic that uses third-party medical providers to help treat less serious conditions, like pinkeye. It’s also testing a service to drop medications on its pharmacy patients’ doorsteps via drone in an hour or less.

A Prime subscription runs $139 a year, also offering streaming services and quicker shipping.

  • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
    223·
    1 year ago

    In a for-profit medical industry, what’s the difference? All those hospitals and medical conglomerates in your country are Amazon with a different name.

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      As someone who works in medical I can say hospitals and other medical facilities absolutely can not sell your data without violating tons of hipaa regulations. I can say we can allow a company to come in and obfuscate data before selling it off. The big difference here would be there can not be any identifier that can link anyone (which happens with most companies that sell data), it’s mostly data on trends. If you can prove otherwise that would be a hell of an amazing lawsuit.

    • gullible@kbin.social
      52·
      1 year ago

      A tiny evil company vs a multinational, data hungry, oligopoly chasing, soul stealing incarnation of human avarice. There’s a difference, Amazon employee. I’ve seen several people calling Amazon the lesser of two evils for the last few days and it literally never is. Never. That concept is fiction.

      • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        1 year ago

        Not an Amazon employee. All capitalistic entities are the same. Extract resources by any (pseudo-legal, or even illegal) means necessary.

        Don’t put words in my mouth, Karen.

        • gullible@kbin.social
          21·
          1 year ago

          In a for-profit medical industry, what’s the difference?

          The implication is that Amazon is equal or perhaps even better. There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism but there are certainly tiers of depravity and degrees of separation, and absolving yourself of thinking about them doesn’t help. If Karen’s only crime is hating Amazon, that solidifies the woman hating origin of the meme.

          • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            1 year ago

            You are a Karen because you came here accusing me of being an Amazon shill in a post that has zero evidence pointing to that. I pointed it out and you still double down on your idiotic response.

            Go the fuck away already.